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Issue: Vol. 3350 No. 1: 19 Jun. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-06-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3350.1.3
Page range: 46–57
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

Second contribution to the knowledge of water mites of the genus Monatractides K. Viets (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from New Guinea, with descriptions of three new species

Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherland
Acari water mites new species running waters New Guinea Papua

Abstract

New records of seven water mite species of the genus Monatractides K. Viets, 1926 (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Torrenticoli-dae) from streams in West Papua and Papua provinces, New Guinea, Indonesia are presented. Three of them, M. magnus, M. neoaustralicus and M. rivulus, are described as new for science.

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